Curses for Disobedience

Deuteronomy 28

15 "But l if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and m overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be n in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 "The Lord o will send on you curses, confusion, and p frustration in all that you undertake to do, q until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make r the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 s The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought 1 and with t blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And u the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 v "The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you w shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And x your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and y there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you z with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and a scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with b madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall c grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. 2 And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 d You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. e You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. f You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 g Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, h but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad i by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs j with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 "The Lord will k bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you l nor your fathers have known. And m there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become n a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 o You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for p the locust shall consume it. 39 q You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you r shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for s they shall go into captivity. 42 p The cricket 3 shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 t The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 u He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. t He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 v "All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be w a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 x Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he y will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 z The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, a swooping down like the eagle, a nation b whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation c who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall d eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52 "They shall e besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And f you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, g in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will h begrudge food to his brother, to i the wife he embraces, 4 and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, j in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 k The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, 5 to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, j in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58 "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, l the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all m the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas n you were as numerous o as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord p took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will q take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

64 "And the Lord r will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and s there you shall serve other gods t of wood and stone, u which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And v among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but w the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and x a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 y In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and z the sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord a will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that b you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:14
    But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
    Lamentations 2:17
    The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
    Daniel 9:11
    All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
    Daniel 9:13
    As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.
    Malachi 2:2
    If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:2
    And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:3 - 6
    Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
  4. Cross References
    Malachi 2:2
    If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 80:16
    They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
    Isaiah 30:17
    A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
    Isaiah 51:20
    Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
    Isaiah 66:15
    For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 23:16
    If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:25
    And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:16
    Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:37
    If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
    2 Chronicles 6:28
    If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
    Amos 4:9
    I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:19
    And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:30
    How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?
    Leviticus 26:17
    I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
    Leviticus 26:37
    They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
    Isaiah 30:17
    A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
    Deuteronomy 28:7
    The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
  12. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:46
    For thus says the Lord God : "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
  13. Cross References
    1 Samuel 17:44
    The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and ...
    1 Samuel 17:46
    This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand...
    Psalms 79:2
    They have given the bodies of your servants to ...
    Jeremiah 16:4
    They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall n...
    Jeremiah 19:7
    And in this place I will make void the plans of...
    Jeremiah 34:20
    And I will give them into the hand of their ene...
  14. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:33
    And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:35
    The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 21:20
    Or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
    Leviticus 22:22
    Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food offering on the altar.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:34
    So that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.
    Zechariah 12:4
    On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
  18. Cross References
    Job 5:14
    They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
    Isaiah 59:10
    We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:5 - 7
    Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
    Jeremiah 8:10
    Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
  20. Cross References
    Amos 5:11
    Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
    Zephaniah 1:13
    Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.
  21. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 20:6
    And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
    Leviticus 19:23 - 25
    When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.
    Micah 6:15
    You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
  22. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 29:9
    For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
    Joel 3:6
    You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
  23. Cross References
    Nehemiah 5:5
    Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:67
    In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.
  25. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:27
    The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
  26. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:4
    But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hosh...
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyri...
    2 Kings 24:12
    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself u...
    2 Kings 24:14
    He carried away all Jerusalem and all the offic...
    2 Kings 25:7
    They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before hi...
    2 Kings 25:11
    And the rest of the people who were left in the...
    2 Chronicles 33:11
    Therefore the Lord brought upon them the comman...
    2 Chronicles 36:6
    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby...
    2 Chronicles 36:20
    He took into exile in Babylon those who had esc...
  27. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:16
    I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
    Jeremiah 16:13
    Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.
  28. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:64
    And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
    Deuteronomy 4:28
    And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  29. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:7 - 8
    Then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
    2 Chronicles 7:20
    Then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
    Jeremiah 24:9
    I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
    Ezekiel 14:8
    And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  30. Cross References
    Micah 6:15
    You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
    Haggai 1:6
    You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
  31. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Joel 2:25
    I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
  32. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:13
    Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.
  33. Cross References
    Micah 6:15
    You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
  34. Cross References
    Lamentations 1:5
    Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
  35. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:38
    You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
  36. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:13
    And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them.
  37. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:12
    The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
  38. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:43
    The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
  39. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:15
    But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
  40. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:18
    Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
  41. Cross References
    Nehemiah 9:35 - 37
    Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.
  42. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:14
    For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'
  43. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:15 - 17
    Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
    Jeremiah 6:22 - 23
    Thus says the Lord : "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
    Isaiah 5:26 - 30
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  44. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:40
    For thus says the Lord : "Behold, one shall fly...
    Jeremiah 49:22
    Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like...
    Lamentations 4:19
    Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in th...
    Hosea 8:1
    Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vultur...
    Habakkuk 1:8
    Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fi...
    Ezekiel 17:3
    Say, Thus says the Lord God : A great eagle wit...
    Ezekiel 17:12
    Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not kno...
  45. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:11
    For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people.
    Isaiah 33:19
    You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
    Jeremiah 5:15
    Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
  46. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17
    Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
    Isaiah 47:6
    I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
  47. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:33
    A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
    Jeremiah 5:17
    They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword.
    Isaiah 62:8 - 9
    The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.
  48. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:5
    Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
    2 Kings 25:1 - 2
    And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
    2 Kings 25:4
    Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
  49. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:57
    Her afterbirth that comes out from between her ...
    Leviticus 26:29
    You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you s...
    Jeremiah 19:9
    And I will make them eat the flesh of their son...
    Ezekiel 5:10
    Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your ...
    2 Kings 6:28 - 29
    And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?"...
    Lamentations 2:20
    Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt...
    Lamentations 4:10
    The hands of compassionate women have boiled th...
  50. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:55
    So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
    Deuteronomy 28:57
    Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
  51. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 15:9
    Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
  52. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 13:6
    If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  53. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:53
    And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
  54. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:54
    The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left.
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
  55. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:55
    So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
  56. Cross References
    Exodus 6:3
    I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
  57. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:15
    And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
  58. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:27
    And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
    2 Kings 24:14
    He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
    Nehemiah 7:4
    The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.
    Jeremiah 42:2
    And said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant - because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us -
  59. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:22
    Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
  60. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 30:9
    The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
    Jeremiah 32:41
    I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
    Zephaniah 3:17
    The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
  61. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:26
    I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you.
    Isaiah 1:24
    Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
    Ezekiel 5:13
    Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord - that I have spoken in my jealousy - when I spend my fury upon them.
  62. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:33
    And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
  63. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:36
    The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
  64. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:28
    And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  65. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 13:6
    If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
    Jeremiah 19:4
    Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents.
    Jeremiah 44:3
    Because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
  66. Cross References
    Amos 9:4
    And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.
  67. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:36
    And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
  68. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:16
    Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  69. Cross References
    Job 7:3 - 4
    So I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
  70. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:34
    So that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.
  71. Cross References
    Hosea 8:13
    As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
    Hosea 9:3
    They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
    Jeremiah 43:7
    And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.
  72. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:16
    Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.
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